Olga Kosakiewicz

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Olga Kosakiewicz was a student of Simone de Beauvoir who infamously joined the circle of de Beauvoir Jean-Paul Sartre in the autumn of 1935 when she was only 18. She and her sister Wanda Kosakiewicz are fused together to make one central character in de Beauvoir's first novel L'Invitée (She Came to Stay, 1943, Gallimard), which was dedicated to Olga (where her name appears as Kosakievicz in the Norton translation).

In Sartre's novels Les Chemins de la Liberté (The Roads to Freedom), the character of Ivich is considered a representation of Olga.

Deirdre Bair's biography of Simone de Beauvoir examines this relationship. Hazel Rowley also discusses it at length in her book about the relationship between Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Olga married Jacques-Laurent Bost, a longtime lover of de Beauvoir.